It's sort of obvious now that he said it. But I had not quite thought of it that way. The same people now continually raising the stakes on the price of redeployment from Iraq with increasingly lurid tales of genocide, ethnic cleansing and regional implosion are pretty much exactly the same people who gamed us into this mess in the first place with another bunch of fairy tales.

Check out Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) from the GOP Iowa debate ...

I know there's something of a bipartisan Ron Paul cult springing up online. And I'm not joining. But I can see why it's there. It's not just a matter of whether you think he's right on the issues. He's pretty much the only guy on the stage who is making coherent points. I watched the debate this evening. And I was actually a bit shocked at just how weak and scattered the GOP field is -- a topic I'll discuss in more depth tomorrow morning.